the washington times article may be taking his quotes out of context… these are the signal… Did they?
""Throughout the first day of the symposium, several cyber experts who had traveled to Sioux Falls to attend in person and examine the packet captures had become frustrated and irritated that Lindell failed to provide any data, with one attendee saying they’d only been shown “random garbage that wastes our time.”
According to Merritt, that’s because there was nothing to reveal. The “packet captures are unrecoverable in the data” and “the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyberincursion by China,” he told the Times.
“So our team said, we’re not going to say that this is legitimate if we don’t have confidence in the information,” Merritt said.""